[KevinH]

Sorry but I have no interest in changing the Select Character interface just to fit your specific desires.

If I did that Sigil would be torn between people who want to use the keyboard for everything (thinking of you BetterRed!) and people who only want to use a mouse and not touch a keyboard. And Sigil would end up with too many ways to do the same thing to ever make it supportable.

If speed is essential and you use special characters that frequently, creating clips for them and using the clips toolbar would be even faster. There is a Clips2 bar which will fit up to 20 additional special characters if you set it up that way. Following pareto's rule that should cover a huge number of cases.

Otherwise just use the established way to do it. Or build Sigil from source with your own changes.

For speed when inputing when my hands are on the keyboard, I often use a 2 or 3 character short hand placeholder for each special character or long word directly. When I am done typing running a saved search group to replace my shorthand with whatever I created the shorthand for.